Author, as appears in the article.: Garcia Yeste C., Gairal Casadó R., Munté Pascual A., Plaja Viñas T.
Department: Pedagogia
URV's Author/s: García Yeste, Carme
Keywords: Out-of-home child care Emotional well-being Dialogic literary gatherings Classic literature Academic skills
Abstract: Research on out‐of‐home child care has revealed that foster care programmes focused on educational attainment and reading have the potential to improve the academic outcomes of children in care. However, no studies have examined which elements of these programmes positively benefit children's emotional well‐being. This article presents evidence of the positive effects of implementing a successful educational action, dialogic literary gatherings, in a children's residential care institution. A qualitative study using a communicative‐oriented methodology was conducted and involved five participant observations and eight daily life stories with children in out‐of‐home care in Catalonia (Spain). The children's reflections demonstrated that reading classic books, such as Dickens' Oliver Twist, deeply influenced their feelings and self‐conceptions and created new and exciting meaning in their lives.
Thematic Areas: Sociology and political science Sociology Sociologia i política Social work Psicología Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences Health (social science) Family studies Ciencias sociales
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 13567500
Author's mail: carme.garciay@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-9717-8021
Record's date: 2024-09-07
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cfs.12384
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Child & Family Social Work. 23 (1): 62-70
APA: Garcia Yeste C., Gairal Casadó R., Munté Pascual A., Plaja Viñas T. (2018). Dialogic literary gatherings and out-of-home child care: Creation of new meanings through classic literature. Child & Family Social Work, 23(1), 62-70. DOI: 10.1111/cfs.12384
Article's DOI: 10.1111/cfs.12384
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2018
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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